MAILBAG ROBBERIES.
COST £12,000 A YEAR. A string 'of questions about mailbag robberies was put to Mr Lees-Smith, the Postmaster-General, in Parliament recently. - Mr Lees-Smith replied that the numbei of mailbags lost, mainly due to theft, between 1927 and 1929, was 89, in addition to which about as. many other bags were tampered with in the course of transit during the same period. Seven persons, he added, were prosecuted in connection with these thefts in 1929., and five in each of the previous two- years. “There is no foundation,” he said, •“for the suggestion that Scotland Yard has on any occasion complained of delay in notifying mail losses. The total amount paid as compensation for the loss of postal packets, including 'parcels, during those three years averages £12,00( a year. It is. not possible to separate the compensation paid in respect of the particular losses referred to. ”
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Matamata Record, Volume XIII, Issue 1109, 27 March 1930, Page 3
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